Every new AI model’s benchmark chart
says “we win.”
The maker draws it, and most of the gaps on it are noise. We read each release and tell you which differences are real — and which you should ignore.
Three things a leaderboard won’t tell you — live from today’s data
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads by 8.1 points on Humanity's Last Exam — outside the noise band, worth acting on.
A 9.0-point gap on DeepSWE (n=113) is inside the noise band (±9.5) — call it a tie.
Z.ai’s own chart is 4.3 points above Artificial Analysis’s run of the same model — inside this benchmark’s ±10.6 band. A second independent run has it at 71.5, 16.7 above the vendor’s chart and further than the band from Artificial Analysis. Neither independent run reproduces the other, and neither reaches the maker's number.
Scores & pricing
All models →Why no single score? →INDEPENDENT = a third party ran the benchmark itself (tbench.ai, vals.ai, Artificial Analysis, Snorkel…).
SELF-REPORTED = the vendor’s own number, not yet replicated.
Every cell links to its source — methodology.
Showing 10 of 14 benchmarks. The other 4 are not ranked here because this site grades them unfit for ranking — 3 are saturated (too many models crowd the ceiling, so a gap between them is not a finding), and 1 is contaminated. All 14 benchmarks, with the grading.
Showing 29 of 41 models with sourced scores. 12 are previous versions of a line we track — a newer one in the same line and price tier shipped since — and are not ranked here for that reason: Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.6 Sol, GLM-5.2, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731), Muse Spark 1.2, GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-6 Sol. Every one of them keeps their own page, recorded price and scores — the full catalog has every model.
There is no total score. We won’t collapse 14 different benchmarks into one number that pretends a 0.5-point gap means something — see a head-to-head for which gaps here are real.
Analysis
- 2026-08-28Models with 10M token context windows 2026None of the 41 models we track ships a native 10M-token window. 29 run flat-rate to their max; 11 price-step at or above a threshold. Every claim sourced.
- 2026-08-27GLM-5.3-Flash vs DeepSeek Flash vs Qwen3.8GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next vs DeepSeek V4 Flash: independent-score counts ran 4/6, 0/4, 8/8 at launch — two days later the boards moved.